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TTS Change Languages Automatically (reading-1510)

Below are all the published results for the test reading-1510, which appears in Non-visual Reading (2.0.0).

This test currently has a 68.42% pass rate.

This test is new or changed from the previous revision.

Reading system testing results
Testing Environment TTS Change Languages Automatically ( reading-1510) Notes
Atypon NVDA Chrome Windows PASS change of language is detected and it works as expected.
BoinIT Viewer [Korean] NVDA Chrome Windows FAIL EPUB Viewer's TTS follows the entire language of the document and does not apply to changes in each sentence.
BoinIT Viewer [Korean] Sens Reader Chrome Windows NA EPUB Viewer's TTS follows the entire language of the document and does not apply to changes in each sentence.
BoinIT Viewer [Korean] Chrome Windows NA EPUB Viewer's TTS follows the entire language of the document and does not apply to changes in each sentence.
Books Voiceover iOS PASS Works as desired.
Bookshare Reader NVDA Chrome Windows PASS Worked fine with multiple Microsoft Core voices installed.
Bookshelf Voiceover iOS PASS
Bookshelf NVDA Chrome Windows PASS The languages change perfectly. The language feature must be enabled in the NVDA speech settings.
Bookshelf TalkBack Android PASS Works as expected.
Colibrio Reader TalkBack Android PASS works as expected.
Colibrio Reader TalkBack Android PASS
Colibrio Reader NVDA Chrome Windows PASS Outcome may vary depending on the voice used. I tested with the default voice in Edge.
EBSCO Reader NVDA Chrome Windows FAIL The screen reader does not change dialects after downloading language packs and configuring settings to change dialect/language when supported.
EBSCO Reader Jaws Chrome Windows PASS Works as expected.
EBSCO Reader NVDA Edge Windows FAIL The screen reader does not change dialects after setting it up to change language/dialect and downloading language packs.
EasyReader Windows PASS After changing the language in the NVDA settings, it seems that the screen reader reads the text correctly.
EasyReader Voiceover iOS PASS Voiceover does switch voice, change in language is detected by it.
EasyReader Jaws Windows 11 PASS Language change works fine.
EasyReader TalkBack Android PASS works as expected.
Kindle TalkBack Android FAIL The app does not support language change.
Kindle Voiceover iOS FAIL The app does not support language change.
Kindle NVDA Windows FAIL Language change is not detected
Kobo Jaws Chrome Windows PASS Change in language was detected.
Kobo Voiceover iOS PASS Change of language was detected.
Kobo TalkBack Android FAIL Change of language was not detected.
Lithium: EPUB Reader 0.24.5.1 TalkBack Android FAIL TTS does not change languages automatically.
Play Books Voiceover iOS PASS Working as expected.
Play Books TalkBack Android FAIL Talkback does not detect language change.
RedShelf NVDA Chrome Windows PASS
RedShelf TalkBack Android PASS
Speech Central AI Voice Reader 13.6.0 TalkBack Android FAIL TTS does not change language automatically.
Thorium 3 Jaws Windows PASS I am using Eloquence in this testing and the languages switched. I also have one Core voices installed. I don't know which TTS languages were used.
Thorium 3 Voiceover macOS PASS reading line by line forwards and backwords works as expected with every line spoken with correct TTS engine. However, "In German", "In French", and "In Italian" was also spoken in the foreign language which I wasn't expecting. Read All, changed to German and Italian correctly but for some reason the French was spoken in English.
Thorium Reader 2 Voiceover macOS PASS Cursoring down line by line read every language shift correctly, although the words "In German" "In French" etc was also spoken in that language which seems suspect. Read All, for some reason spoke the French text in English.
Thorium Reader 3 NVDA Windows PASS
Thorium Reader 3 Jaws Chrome Windows PASS The TTS changes seemlessly with diffrent language text
Thorium Reader 3 [Spanish] NVDA Windows PASS
Vanilla Reader NVDA Chrome Windows PASS works as expected.